Do you think you can have a premonition about your death?

I think we all hit a block. I use to not be able to see myself being 30 when I was in my early 20’s or younger. Thirty just seem serious and loaded with responsibilities of being an adult. When you are young and full of energy it just seems so far away. Then your arrive. Then as you get to know more people in their 50’s, it will also feel like you will never get beyond there.
Then you do. Then you try to picture 60, 70, 80, 90. And you have a hard time thinking of that.
I recently saw my 92 year old aunt, that I knew as a kid. I remember her having energy and being vibrant in her 40’s. Then I saw her in her 70’s. I could still see the spit fire there a little bit but there was a change I didn’t imagine would happen. Now at 92 she is nothing I ever imagined for her. In my mind she was never really going to age pass 60. It’s not that I thought she would die. But rather, I could not imagine her aging.

I think we do the same for ourselves. Only you think it means you won’t live that long.
I never thought I would get passed 50 because my dad died at 49. Even though it wasn’t logical and I am passed 50, it felt real. But I was wrong.

Even if your right what would be the point in worrying about it. It will only interfere with living your life as you should. Any one of us could die tomorrow, so live today and let tomorrow take care of itself.

Okay so this is weird. I am a pretty rational person, I think. Not superstitious or what have you. But I have this really odd sense of certainty that my death will be caused by my lungs. I don’t know where I got that idea. It’s especially odd because my lungs have been some of the more healthy organs in my body so far. I do get pleurisy pretty often, which is awful lung pain that lasts a week. Scares the crap out of me every time!

Don’t know why I have this little quirk, and I don’t think I actually believe it has any significance because, like I said, not superstitious. But there’s always that nagging voice that tells me…keep an eye on those lungs of yours.

No.

Great question, @Moonaa, and welcome to Fluther.

Of course you can have such a premonition. That is implicit in your question details, as you have it. I think what you are really trying to ask, correct me if I’m wrong, is; “Will my premonition necessarily come true?”. If that’s the question, then the answer is no, unless you make it into a self fulfilling prophecy by deliberate high-risk action. If one sets out to live fast, die young and leave a pretty body behind, they often succeed. But there is no credible evidence premonitions have anything to do with reading the tea leaves, or tuning in to some cosmic blue-print of the future.

The problem with believing in premonitions is twofold. One, it requires that you deny any possibility that you have free will. You have to believe everything that is going to happen is preordained. If it isn’t predestined, then there would be nothing out there for your cosmic antennae to tune into and read. And second, if you give credence to premonitions you feel, you often do turn them into actions that may hamper your future life. For instance, If I believed I was going to die before I turned thirty, why would I make any long range plans for my life or invest in things like education and healthy eating that pay of hugely over time, but take many decades to show their real benefits?

We humans feel that we have free will. We can’t prove that, but we can examine lives lived as if it were true versus lives lived as if all is predestined; and when we do, we find that acting as if free will exists is our only rational choice.

When my mother turned 92, she announced to us that she expected to be dead by her 93d birthday because she “had a feeling.” She was very annoyed when she kept on living…until five months after her 96th birthday.

Sure, you could be perfectly correct in your feelings about 30 dead.

Now that’s been established, fuggetaboudit and enjoy the fullest life.

I think the lyric indicates that we all have these feelings at one time or another. But unless you’re mortally ill and have been told you have only a few days to live, I don’t believe you can actually “see” your own death, only imagine it as a rresult of something that happens. Say, for example, a friend or relative dies at at a very early age… or you read about someone you admire dying… or yu have a dream you remember or even don’t remember about dying… these and other things can plant a thought or fear in your mind about your own death that sudeenly becomes very real to you.

Watch Logan’s Run much? Think turning 30 will never happen to you?? Well it will, and it’s not so bad. It could just be an end of an era. That’s all.

Oh totally. I had my premonition in a dream, where I got shot in the head in a tunnel by a blackmarket gun salesman.

I saw a lot of death when I was young, so I always figured I’d die young too. A lot of soldiers also experience this, but that might be a self fulfilling prophecy.

I used to think that too, when I was younger. I am 50 now, and still going strong. I am not sure what it is attributed to. But lack of an ability to see ones own self at a particular age.

No, unless there’s an anxiety disorder or you are a terminal cancer patient.